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chapel

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chapel \Chap"el\, n. [OF. chapele, F. chapelle, fr. LL. capella, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of cappa, capa, cloak, cape, cope; also, a covering for the head. The chapel where St. Martin's cloak ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context in Wales English) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. n. 1 A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church. 2 A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc. v 1 (context nautical transitive ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French chapele (12c., Modern French chapelle ), from Medieval Latin cappella "chapel, sanctuary for relics," literally "little cape," diminutive of Late Latin cappa "cape" (see cap (n.)); by tradition, originally in reference to the ...

Usage examples of chapel.

Rimon and Jord were to teach the changeover class in the chapel while Kadi and Willa visited with Abel Veritt and his wife.

Since the chapel was stone, it provided fairly good insulation, so he did not pick up the blazon of anger from outside until the door opened and Abel entered with his wife, Kadi, and Willa.

Charles arrived at this place, and he had not broken his fast, but before taking anything he visited the different chapels for meditation, of which Father Adorno gave him the points.

Since the bear, the leading figure of the Ainu pantheon, is regarded as a mountain god, a number of scholars have suggested that a like belief may account for the selection of lofty mountain caves to be the chapels of the old Neanderthal bear cult.

Miss Airedale could have saved him, in her racing roadster, but she had not emerged from the melee in the chapel.

How many delirious days had passed since I had returned to Alsatia from the Rolls Chapel?

The seminar was being held in this little chapel affair that was once an Anabaptist hall.

They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.

On the way, in one of the cities in the north of Batiara, where the Antae had their own court, we saw a chapel complex.

At a short distance from the great hall and its domestic buildings Lady Appleton could just make out a small chapel, also built of stone.

Jennet grumbled as she and Mark walked the short distance from the house to the small private chapel at Appleton Manor.

Jennet says she is oddly hesitant to speak of it, but that she came to Appleton Manor to visit without a qualm the last time her father wanted to measure the chapel.

Her view encompassed the rear of Appleton Hall, extending as far the apple orchard and including the small stone chapel where Dame Cat had made her home.

Queen to an embroidered throne under a velvet baldachino in a gorgeous chamber which had been the chapel of the Popes.

Lots of people, so far, have managed to live and die without making the acquaintance of Jeremy Mars, but Cleo Baldrick has left Jeremy Mars and his mother something strange in her will: a phone booth on a state highway, some forty miles outside of Las Vegas, and a Las Vegas wedding chapel.